OS51F:
The Biogeochemical Cycling of Mercury in the Coastal and Open Ocean I

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Robert P Mason, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States and Arthur Russell Flegal Jr, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Robert P Mason, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States
Co-conveners:  Arthur Russell Flegal Jr, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States; Univ California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Robert P Mason, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Anthropogenic Hg in the ocean: Trajectories of change and implications for exposure in the United States
Helen Marie Amos, Elizabeth S Corbitt, Kurt T Bullard and Elsie M Sunderland, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
8:15 AM
 
Mercury in the North Atlantic - results of the 2014 GEOTRACES GEOVIDE cruise
Lars-Eric Heimbürger1,2, Daniel Cossa3, Jeroen Sonke2, Francois Lacan4, Pascale Lherminier5 and Géraldine Sarthou6, (1)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (2)CNRS-GET, Toulouse, France, (3)ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, (4)CNRS-LEGOS, Toulouse, France, (5)IFREMER, Plouzane, France, (6)IUEM Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Plouzané, France
8:30 AM
 
Water Column Methylation in Estuaries
Amina Traore Schartup1, Ryan Calder1, Anne Laerke Soerensen2, Robert P Mason3, Prentiss H Balcom3 and Elsie M Sunderland1, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Stockholm University, Department of Applied Environmental Science, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States
8:45 AM
 
Hg species distribution in South Atlantic Ocean along 40°S parallel
Arne Bratkic1, Mitja Vahcic2, Joze Kotnik1 and Milena Horvat1, (1)Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, (2)European Commision, Joint Research Centre, Geel, Belgium
9:00 AM
 
Mercury and Methylmercury Distributions Along a Longitudinal Transect of the North Atlantic Ocean
David P Krabbenhoft1, Morgan Maglio1, Jacob Ogorek1, William M Landing2, Peter L Morton3, Rachel Shelley4 and Elsie M Sunderland5, (1)USGS Wisconsin Water Science Center, Middleton, WI, United States, (2)Florida State University, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (3)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (4)University of Western Brittany, Brest, France, (5)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
9:15 AM
 
The Dynamics of Mercury Speciation and Transport at a Central California Coastal Lagoon
Priya M Ganguli1,2, Peter W Swarzenski3, Natasha T Dimova4, Jeremy Merckling1, Nicholas C Kehrlein1, Rachel A Hohn5, Christina M Richardson3, Cordell D Johnson3, Andrew T Fisher6, Carl H Lamborg7 and Arthur Russell Flegal Jr5, (1)University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (4)University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (5)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (6)UC Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (7)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
9:30 AM
 
Mercury Stable Isotopic Composition of Monomethylmercury in Estuarine Sediments and Pure Cultures of Mercury Methylating Bacteria
Sarah Janssen1, Marcus W Johnson2, Tamar Barkay1, Joel D Blum2 and John R Reinfelder1, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
9:45 AM
 
Methyl mercury uptake by diverse marine phytoplankton and trophic transfer to zooplankton
Cheng-Shiuan Lee and Nicholas S. Fisher, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
 
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